Raisah Ahmed is a Screenwriter and Director working across film and television. She is a Screen International Rising Start Scotland 2024. Currently developing feature ‘Half-Moon Camp’ with Producer Zorana Piggott and Film4, and adapting Mahsuda Snaith’s book ‘The Things We Thought We Knew’ with Mahsuda co-writing and Producer Shirine Best. Other credits include directing on CBBC’s ‘Sparks’, ‘Princess Mirror-Belle’ and ‘Molly & Mack’, BBC3’s ‘The Break’ and writing on BBC The Social’s award winning phone drama ‘Control’ and WB Discovery animated series ’Toad and Friends’. She was in the writers room for Season 1 and 2 of CH4 Series ‘We Are Lady Parts’. She is currently adapting Martin Sixsmith’s ‘Ayesha’s Gift’ for television with Freedom Scripted, on which she’s also an EP, as well as developing ’Nur’ a 6-part original romcom for television with Channel X Hopscotch. Raisah is on the BAFTA Scotland Committee, the Scottish Youth Film Foundation Board, and chairs the Glasgow Film Festival Industry Advisory Group.

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